Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-04-29


warI heaven. The Lord shut him in.''
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ne same door fastenings thai kept Noah iii i
Keep the world out. am glad 10 know thai /
pies are done with him. Here be IN as have /
u hard TO get bread for his family; there he I
VIII never hunger any more. Here he NAV /
nave Wept pitterlx; there 1.-THE Lamb that is III
the midst Of the throne will lead him to living
fountains oil water, and God will wipe away |
All tears from his eyes, Here he may have
z, hafd work 70 get house; but in my Fathers
house are many mansions. and rent day never
comes. Here there are death beds and cot |
uns, and graves. there no sickness, no weary
watching, no choking cough, no consuming
lever, no chattering chill. no toiling bell, no |
grave. The sorrows Of life shall come NJ and
knock At the door, but no admittance. The |
perplexitics Of life shall come up and knock |
on the door, but no admittance. Safe for
ever Az the agony Of earth in one wave |
CELESTIAL light shall not break them down. |
HOWL on, We winds, and rage, We seas! The
Lord-.the Lord shut him inn
o. what grand old doori SO wide, SO easily
swung both ways, and with such sure fasten-
ings. NO burglars key can pick that lock
no arm Of hell can shove back the bolt. /
rejoice that do not ask YOU to come aboard
crazy craft with leaking hulk, and broken
heim and unfasteued door; but an ark ifty
cubits wide and 300 cubits long and door 50
large that the round earth, without graziug
the posts, might be BOWED Ia.
fUTTlSd OFF UNTIL TOO LATE.
Now, If the ark of Christ is SO grand n pla ,e
In which to live and die and triumph come
into the ark. Know well that the door that
shut Noah In shut the world out; and though,
Wnen the pitiless storm came pe]ting on their
me In let me in ~ the door did not open, For
l2O years they were invited. They expected
to come in, but the antediluvians said: 1--WE
must cultivate these elds; we must be worth
more focks OF sheep and herds Of cattle; we
will walt until we get little older; we win
enjoy our farms little longer.n But mean
while the storm was brewing. The fountains
Q, heaven were filling up. The pry was being
deep The last year had come, the last month,
The last week. the last.day, the last hour, the
last moment In an awful dash an ocean
cropped from the sky and another rolled up
from beneath; and God rolled the earth and
SKY into one wave of universal obstruction.
80 men now put off going into the ark.
They say they win wait twenty years first
They will have a little longer time with their
worldly associates They will wait until they
get older. They say: you cannot expect a
man Of my attachments and of my position to
surrender myself just now. But before the
storm comes will go in. Yes, will | know
what am about. Trust me.'
DEATH COMES VERY SUDDENLY
After awhile, one night about ~ O'Clock
going home, he passes scaffoding as gust
of wind strikes it, and plank falls Dead,
ana outside the ark! Or, riding 10 the park,
horse becomes unmanageable and he shouts
whoa! whoan and takes another twist in
tine reins and plants his feet against the dash
board, and pulls back. But no use. 1t is no.
so much down the avenue that he flies as on
the way to eternity. Out of the wreck Of the
crash his BODY is drawn but his soul is not
picked up. 1t fled behind swifter courser in
to the great future. Dead and outside the
ark! Or some night, he wakes up with dis
tress that momeDtarfiy increases, until be
shrieks out with pain. The doctors come in
and they give him twenty drops, but no relief:
forty drops, fifty drops, sixty drops but no re-
lief. No time for prayer No time to read
one OF the promises. No time to get single
sin pardoned The whole house is aroused in
alarm. The children scream. The wife faints
The pulses fail. The heart stops The soul
| flies 0, NV God! dead aud outside the ark!
have no doubt that derision kept many
people out of the ark. The world laughed to
see man go in, and said: "Here is man
starting for the ark Why, there will be no
deluge. If there is one, that miserable ship
will not weather it. Aha going into the ark!
Wen, that is to good too keep. Here, fellows
have you heard the newsl This man is going
into the ark" Under this artillery of scorn
the mans good resolution persisted.
And SO there are hundreds kept ont BY the
lear OF derision. The young man asks him
self: what would they say at the store to-
| morrow morning if / should become a Chris
tlans When go down to the club house they
would shout: Here comes that new Chris
tian. Suppose you will not have anything to
do with us ,nows Suppose you are uraying
| nova Get down on YOUR knees and let us
hear you pray. Come, now, rive us touch.
| Will not do it cha Pretty Christian you are'"
Is 1t not the fear of being laughed at that
keeps you out of the kingdom of God! Which
of these scorners will help you at the lasti
| When you lie down on a diving pillow, which
of them will he there. In the day of eternity,
| will they bail you outs
SALVATION OPEN TO AIN.
| My friends and neig hbors, come il right
away, Come IN through Christ, the wide
door-the door that swings out towards you
| Come in, and be saved. Come and be happy
The spirit and the Bride say, Come" Room
| in the ark Room in the ark
| But do not come alone. The text invites
| you to bring your family. Come, thou, and
all thy house" That means your wife and
your children. You can not drive them in.
If Noah had tried to drive the pigeons and the
doves into the ark he would only have scat
| tered them. So parents not wise about
| these things. They make iron rules about
| Sabbaths, and they force the catecbisnl down
| the throat as they would hold the child's nose
and force down a dose of rhubarb and Gallo
mel You can not drive your children into
| the ark. 1ou can draw your children to
| Christ, but YOU can not coerce them. The
cross lifted, not to drive, but to draw IF
be lifted up, / will draw all men unto me-
! AS the sun draws up the drops of morning
| dew, so the sun of Righteousness exhales the
| tears of repentance
| ''Come thou and all thy house into the ark !"
| Be sure that you bring your husband and
! wife with YOU How would Noah have felt if.
| when he heard the rain pattering on the roof
/ of the ark. he knew that his wife was outside
| i'll the storing No; she went with him. And
! yet some of you are on the ship outward
bound" for heaven but your companion is
| unsheltered. You remember the dav when
| the marriage ring was set Nothing has vet
| been able to break it, Sickness came and
| the hnger shrauk, but the ring staid on. The
| twain stood alone above a child's grave, and
! the dark mouth of the tomb swallowed up a
| Thousand hopes; but the ring dropped not in
| to the open grave. Days Of poverty came
I and the hand did many a hard DAVIS work :but
/ the rubbing of the work against the ring only
! made it shine brighter. Shall that ring ever
I he lost' VIII the iron clang of the sepuicher-
gate crush it forever: l pray God that you
| VINO have been married on earth may be to-
! gether in heaven. o, by the quiet bliss OF
! your earthly home; by the babe's cradle; bv
! all the VOWS of that day when YOU started
| life together beg yo9 TO see to it that you
| both get into the ark.
ALL THE FAMILIES WELCOME.
Come back and bring your wife or YOUR hus-
band with you-not BY fretting about religion
or dingdonging them about religion, but b. 4
consistent life and by a compelling PRAYER
that shall bring the throne of God down into
your bedroom Better live in the smallest
house in Brooklyn and get into heaven than
| live fifty years i'll the finest house in Madison
| square and wake up at last and find that one
OF you for all eternity is outside the ark. Go
home tonight. lock the door of your room;
take I'm the Ribia and road il tOueflpr and